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Title Mass mediations : new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond / edited by Walter Armbrust
Published Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2000

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Description xi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction anxieties of scale / Walter Armbrust -- Public culture in Arab Detroit : creating Arab/American identities in a transnational domain / Andrew Shryock -- The 6/8 beat goes on : Persian popular music from Bazm-e Qujariyyeh to Beverly Hills garden parties / Anthony Shay -- Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International : transgender pop and polysemiotics of sex, nation, and ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian border / Ted Swedenburg -- Playing it both ways : local Egyptian performers between regional identity and international markets / Katherine E. Zirbel -- Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah : Moroccan music and Euro-American imagination / Philip Schuyler -- Nasser 56/Cairo 96 : reimaging Egypt's lost community / Joel Gordon -- Consuming Damascus: public culture and the construction of social identity / Christa Salamandra -- The hairbrush and the dagger : mediating modernity in Lahore / Richard McGill Murphy -- "Beloved Istanbul" : realism and the transnational imaginary in Turkish popular culture / Martin Stokes -- Badi'a Masabni, artiste and modernist: the Egyptian print media's carnival of national identity / Roberta L. Dougherty -- American ambassador in technicolor and cinemascope : Hollywood and revolution on the Nile / Robert Vitalis -- The golden age before the golden age : commercial Egyptian cinema before the 1960s / Walter Armbrust
Summary Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-353) and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-353) and index
Notes Also available via World Wide Web
Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Subject Mass media -- Middle East.
Popular culture -- Middle East.
Author Armbrust, Walter.
ebrary, Inc.
LC no. 99043224
ISBN 0520219252 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520219260 (paperback)
Other Titles UC Press E-Books Collection, 1928-2004 (Public)